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Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe’s first grade celebrated a very exciting milestone: the receiving of their first Chumash. The talmidim, together with their rebbeim, grandparents, and parents, shared this very moving experience at Ner Mordechai / Shaarei Tova on Sunday morning, December 15.

On Sunday, December 8, both of MTA’s Lionotics Robotics teams competed at the NYC FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifier. The event began with presenting each team’s robot for inspection and making any necessary changes before the start of the competition.

It wasn’t just an open house; Hadar Bet Yaakov had an inaugural Open House Event where prospective parents enjoyed a hot schnitzel and bourekas buffet, warm cookie selections, as well as a program of rabbanim and political leaders to usher in Queens’ first Sefardi Bet Yaakov.

On Shabbos, Parshas VaYishlach, the JHS girls from the Yeshiva of Central Queens had their annual Shabbaton. The girls in grades 6 through 8, along with staff and alumni chaperones, davened and had breakfast at YCQ before heading upstate New York for a Shabbaton filled with ruach, friendship, and spirituality.

Last week, the Rambam Mesivta community had a special assembly, led by Rabbi Yotav Eliach, Principal of Rambam and noted author of Judaism, Zionism, and the Land of Israel, commemorating the anniversary of the United Nation’s passage of the Partition Plan on November 29, 1947.